This course focused on and underscored the facilitator's role in providing assistance, direction, and supervision, often in a more indirect and non-intrusive approach. Students had an opportunity to design and facilitate a customized participative learning scenario, and then present and share their findings at the end of the course. The course was divided into in-depth laboratory phases focusing on applied methods and resources to facilitate knowledge transfer and support independent learning as part of a non-classroom style setting.

During each of the four labs, a different pair of experts were invited to engage students in performative activities in order to explore what taking on the complex role of facilitator means - be it face-to-face, or in a hybrid or a digital settings. The experts created the various settings, giving students opportunities to experience different forms of participative learning first-hand and in person. The lab topics resulted in creating shared learning experiences and sparking discussions related to group dynamics, participative decision-making, and various degrees of teamwork.

The students experimented using space, objects/interfaces. and their own mind power as collaborative elements. During the final lab, each group shared the participative setting they had created with other students, assumed the role as a facilitator, and then jointly discussed their experiences.